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 The Abby is made up of a couple of large buildings and a set of very small, stone buildings along the back wall of the courtyard. Along the wall are scare guardsmen, stuffed armor and weapons purched or leaning as if there were actual guards standing there. Next to the gate that we came through was a small guard house from which Otto popped out of, as he rushed up to inspect us. Zygfrek was the other guard who came out as well. They are both quite odd as the seem to be a mixture of parts from many different kinds of creatures.
-Otto is a beardless Drawf with patches of donkey flesh with one human ear and one wolfs ear. He also has a protruding wolfs snout and fangs with arms and and hands that are human and his legs and feet are leonine. He also has a donkey’s tail. He doesn’t speak very well. His voice and laughter have donkey overtones.
+Otto is a beardless Drawf with patches of donkey flesh with one human ear and one wolfs ear. He also has a protruding wolfs snout and fangs, with arms and hands that are human and his legs and feet are leonine. He also has a donkey’s tail. He doesn’t speak very well. His voice and laughter have donkey overtones.
 Zygfrek is about 4’ 7’’ with the left side of her face and body covered in lizard scales, the right with tufts of grey wolf fur, between the tufts is pale human skin. Her eyes are feline and her fingers resemble cat paws with opposable thumbs. She has a gruff voice and wears a grey cloak with black fur trim.
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 He offers a potion to Rinn for healing purposes but knowing how the Abbott is, he didn’t take it and decided to let Kyana check it later. He seems a little upset at the death of Mishka. Dain points out that if his life was spent in chains, maybe it wasn’t much of a life anyway. The Abbott replied, “All life is precious.”.
-The Abbott explains that Pete corals the mongrel folk who are less mentally stable. It’s his job to keep the doors shut and to keep people out. If we wished to look around upstairs, we could go around the wall on the rampart to reach the second floor. Ezmeralda might be there. When asked who Ezmeralda is, the Abbott describes her as a former Vistani, someone we might find as an ally to us.
+The Abbott explains that Pete corals the mongrel folk who are less mentally stable. It’s his job to keep the doors shut and to keep people out. If we wished to look around upstairs, we could go around the wall on the rampart to reach the second floor. Ezmerelda might be there. When asked who Ezmerelda is, the Abbott describes her as a former Vistani, someone we might find as an ally to us.
-At the back door, Misty is listening at it. She hears loud laughter, howling, cries of pain. She looks at the second level and decided to climb up there and look around. In floats a model, of the second floor, of the east wing. She moves to a door on that floor and listens. She can only hear the noise from downstairs. She climbs back down and heads back to the main group. When she gets back, the group catches her up on the goings on over there. Rinn and Dain were AFK. Snoggly tells her about Ezmeralda. Misty would like to meet her. AFK ended.
+At the back door, Misty is listening at it. She hears loud laughter, howling, cries of pain. She looks at the second level and decided to climb up there and look around. In floats a model, of the second floor, of the east wing. She moves to a door on that floor and listens. She can only hear the noise from downstairs. She climbs back down and heads back to the main group. When she gets back, the group catches her up on the goings on over there. Rinn and Dain were AFK. Snoggly tells her about Ezmerelda. Misty would like to meet her. AFK ended.
 Rinn gave the potion that the Abbott gave him to Kyana to check it out. She determines that it is a potion of superior healing. He, Misty, Kyana, and a reluctant Adrian proceed to move up onto the ramparts and making their way to the second floor. We checked the first door and it was full of old useless furniture. They moved on to the second door.
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 Rinn proceeds to introduce the others. She seems to know about Tabaxi’s so interested to see Misty, she is not surprised like so many others. He introduces Kyana and Adrian as well. She catches a whiff of the sulfur breath. Rinn explains that we’d hoped she might have a way to help rid poor Adrian and Kyana of the afflictions. He explains that the Abbott told us about and we thought, because of her heritage, that she might know of a way to help them. She told us that she is no longer Vistani. She also tells us that she is no healer. She asks us about our experience with the Abbott then explains that he is at least 100 years old and looks like he is in his mid-twenties. He is clearly not human, but he is generally good.
-She then looks to us to ask, why we are here. Misty chimes in as being interested in her and tells her about the cards she has. As Ezmeralda mentions tells Misty that she is no longer Vistani and is an outcast, Misty tells her she doesn’t care. That she thinks Ezmeralda is cool. Ezmeralda asks why we are here, in Barovia Rinn explains that we don’t really know, then Kyana explain how she got here and that Snoggly and Dain were with her caravan and ended up here at the same time. She stepped up to Kyana to study her. She said, you died and came back without aid to which we replied yes. She said you were given a dark gift by members of the Amber Temple.
+She then looks to us to ask, why we are here. Misty chimes in as being interested in her and tells her about the cards she has. As Ezmerelda mentions tells Misty that she is no longer Vistani and is an outcast, Misty tells her she doesn’t care. That she thinks Ezmerelda is cool. Ezmerelda asks why we are here, in Barovia Rinn explains that we don’t really know, then Kyana explain how she got here and that Snoggly and Dain were with her caravan and ended up here at the same time. She stepped up to Kyana to study her. She said, you died and came back without aid to which we replied yes. She said you were given a dark gift by members of the Amber Temple.
 She tells us that she is seeking someone named Rudolph van Richten and as if we seen him. We have not. She asks if we know who he is. She tells us that Rudolph van Richten is a monster hunter and is here to kill Strahd. Then she tells us that Strahd is coming here. She is trying to find Rudolph to let him know that Strahd is coming, in hopes that he can finally defeat him. He likely can’t. She explains that we are in the Abby of Saint Markovia and that Saint Markovia lead a revolt, a virtual army, to kill the Strahd and failed. They were all killed by the vampire himself. She said she was a little freaked out but that she felt she was there for a reason and she doesn’t want Rudolph to be in this alone. She believes he is here somewhere but doesn’t know where. She still has friends among the Vistani and they told her that he travelled the mists with them and came here.
-The Abbott has invited Strahd here again, yes, he’s been here before. He has invited him to meet his bride. Kyana told her that he had tried to get her to give up her face to the bride to which Ezmeralda replied that he had done the same with her. She said that she has no doubt that he will find a face and he will complete her to some level and present her to Strahd. She agreed with us that she can’t imagine that Strahd would accept her. She said that the only good thing is that it will bring Strahd here and she will find a way to kill him.
+The Abbott has invited Strahd here again, yes, he’s been here before. He has invited him to meet his bride. Kyana told her that he had tried to get her to give up her face to the bride to which Ezmerelda replied that he had done the same with her. She said that she has no doubt that he will find a face and he will complete her to some level and present her to Strahd. She agreed with us that she can’t imagine that Strahd would accept her. She said that the only good thing is that it will bring Strahd here and she will find a way to kill him.
-When asked that we need to find her friend, correct. She said yes, he is her friend and was her mentor. They had a falling out, but he taught her everything she knows. He is the finest monster hunter there is. He is well studied. If anyone is to have a chance to kill Strahd, it would be him. Kyana suggest that there is another here that may become like him, a monster hunter. Ezmeralda asks Kyana is she knows what her dark gift is? Kyana replies, “No, I do not!”. She said the land will bring you back to life but you have to agree to it, there is a price. She asks what Adrian remembers, but he remembers no such negotiation.
+When asked that we need to find her friend, correct. She said yes, he is her friend and was her mentor. They had a falling out, but he taught her everything she knows. He is the finest monster hunter there is. He is well studied. If anyone is to have a chance to kill Strahd, it would be him. Kyana suggest that there is another here that may become like him, a monster hunter. Ezmerelda asks Kyana is she knows what her dark gift is? Kyana replies, “No, I do not!”. She said the land will bring you back to life but you have to agree to it, there is a price. She asks what Adrian remembers, but he remembers no such negotiation.
 This is how it worked for Starhd von Zarovich. He was offered immortality as a vampire, and this realm to control, in his negotiation, which he obviously accepted. Rinn quizzes her about the Guilthais Tree on Yester Hill and about the platform where we stood and looked into the mists and what we saw there. She said you were seeing visions of Barovia as it once was. She said that Strahd often goes there and sits on his Nightmare and gazes into it, to see the kingdom he once established, and remember his life with Tatyana. Rinn told her that he understood that there is someone even above Strahd. She confirmed that there is a force beyond her ability to comprehend.
-Getting back to helping Adrian, Rinn asked if there is anything we can do for him. She said that the obvious answer is to kill Strahd. Rinn replied that we aren’t strong enough. We might be able to assist a great monster hunter though. When asked if the Vistani are able to find him, we were told that Van Richten despised the Vistani and got away from them as-soon-as he got here. He may use then to gather information. Rinn asked if she knew if they could scry on him and find him. Ezmeralda suggested that maybe Madam Eva could but she would need to have some acquaintance with him to do so.
+Getting back to helping Adrian, Rinn asked if there is anything we can do for him. She said that the obvious answer is to kill Strahd. Rinn replied that we aren’t strong enough. We might be able to assist a great monster hunter though. When asked if the Vistani are able to find him, we were told that Van Richten despised the Vistani and got away from them as-soon-as he got here. He may use then to gather information. Rinn asked if she knew if they could scry on him and find him. Ezmerelda suggested that maybe Madam Eva could but she would need to have some acquaintance with him to do so.
 What about an item of his, would she have something of his to use to scry from. She said he lived here, for a time. She also told us that he may have been at the tower by the lake near here. We mentioned that we had heard of the area when two children ran away from Vallaki and were last seen in that area. She reminded us that the area we are talking about is full of wolves and werewolves. It’s doubtful that the children survived. She said that if he was at the tower, =he likely isn’t anymore and Kyana suggested that we could search there to see if he left any clues.